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“Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato. . . . To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.”
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- Source:
- Tractate of Education.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 20f53d48599696f1ecae079132f980ddf011c14103f4e60e297bae34b056455d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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